44% Oppose Sotomayor’s Confirmation, but Support Grows After First Day of Hearings
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor spoke for herself Monday on the first day of her confirmation hearings and got some help in the polls as a result.
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July 14, 2009
July 14, 2009
The State Budget Mess -- Continued By Debra J. Saunders
When California voters rejected five measures on the May 19 special election ballot, but passed a sixth measure that barred legislative pay raises in budget deficit years, the message to Sacramento was clear: Voters did not like what Sacramento had to offer.
July 14, 2009
Rasmussen Reports Daily Prediction Challenge: Health Insurance
The daily Rasmussen Reports Prediction Challenge for Tuesday focuses on the health insurance.
July 14, 2009
Immigration Reform Is Quietly Here By Froma Harrop
One of America's toughest problems is being solved right before our unseeing eyes. As Mark Sanford strayed, Michael Jackson departed and Sarah Palin quit, the Obama administration was quietly putting law, order and the national interest back into our immigration system.
July 14, 2009
70% Say Media Coverage of Michael Jackson's Death Was Too Much
Seventy percent (70%) of Americans say the media paid too much attention to the death of music superstar Michael Jackson.
July 14, 2009
41% of Americans Say They Are Overweight
Forty-one percent (41%) of Americans say they are overweight, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
July 13, 2009
Rasmussen Reports Daily Prediction Challenge: Housing Market
The daily Rasmussen Reports Prediction Challenge for Monday focuses on the housing market.
July 13, 2009
Voters Still Rank Economy As Top Issue, But Interest in Health Care Rebounds
The economy once again takes the top spot on the list of 10 important issues among voters, but interest in health care has surged and is now at its highest level in nearly two years.
July 13, 2009
30% Say It’s Okay To Form A Union Without A Secret Vote, 52% Disagree
Thirty percent (30%) of Americans say it is fair to form a union without having a secret ballot vote if a majority of a company’s workers sign a card saying they want to unionize.
July 13, 2009
49% Oppose Health Care Reform Plan, 46% Favor It
Forty-nine percent (49%) of U.S. voters now at least somewhat oppose the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats, while 46% at least somewhat favor it, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
July 13, 2009
Chaos on Capitol Hill: All Politics Is Loco By Michael Barone
Disarray. That's one word to describe the status of the Obama administration's legislative program as Congress heads into its final four weeks of work before the August recess. A watered-down cap-and-trade bill passed the House narrowly last month, but Sen. Barbara Boxer has decided not to bring up her version in the upper chamber until September.
July 13, 2009
Numbers Run Sotomayor’s Way So Far
Sonia Sotomayor, the federal appeals court judge who is President Obama’s first nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, has the numbers with her so far. Americans overwhelmingly expect the Senate to confirm her as her confirmation hearings begin.
July 12, 2009
It's Getting Cold Out There By Debra J. Saunders
No wonder skeptics consider the left's belief in man-made global warming as akin to a fad religion -- last week in Italy, G8 leaders pledged to not allow the Earth's temperature to rise more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
July 11, 2009
What They Told Us: Week Ending July 10, 2009
Yes, Virginia, there is a Republican Party, and the jockeying already has begun to determine who its standard-bearer will be in 2012 - even though the first primaries are 30 months away.
July 11, 2009
The Road to Economic Demoralization -- Washington Is Going the Wrong Way By Lawrence Kudlow
There's no question that current government policies for taxes, spending and regulation are causing the United States to lose competitiveness in the global race for capital, prosperity and growth.
July 10, 2009
71% Say Housing Market Will Improve Only When Economy Does
Seventy-one percent (71%) of Americans say the U.S. housing market will only improve when the overall economy gets better, an eight-point increase from February when President Obama first announced his $275-billion national mortgage assistance plan.
July 10, 2009
62% Oppose Federal Bailouts for State Budget Problems
Sixty-two percent (62%) of Americans now oppose federal government bailouts for states like California that are experiencing major budget problems.
July 10, 2009
Rasmussen Reports Daily Prediction Challenge: Health Care Reform
The daily Rasmussen Reports Prediction Challenge for Friday focuses on health care reform.
July 10, 2009
56% Favor Regulation of Campaign Contributions, But 88% Say Special Interests Likely To Get Around It
The Supreme Court is expected to hand down a ruling this fall that could loosen restrictions on contributions to political campaigns in a major way, but 56% of U.S. voters believe the federal government should regulate how much money individuals can give to political campaigns.
July 10, 2009
Michelle's Purse By Susan Estrich
Was that a $5,000 VBH alligator clutch that Michelle Obama was carrying in Italy? So the company bragged, absolutely certain it was theirs, until the White House responded that it was not the alligator but the patent, an $875 VBH clutch and not the more expensive model.
